The Ultimate ’70s Roller Disco Style Pinterest Board

Roller skates, faddish since their invention in the mid 1700s, became newly popular in the seventies with the introduction of polyurethane wheels. This wave of the roller craze coincided with the dance-mad disco era and its bad-meaning-good fashions. While we could only smile and shake our heads incredulously as we pinned images of roller babes in shiny leotards and leg warmers, short-shorts and high, striped athletic socks, the inspiring high-waisted denim look of the era stopped us in our tracks. We weren’t the only ones to be so inspired, as Vanessa Axente’s of-the-moment “Roller Girl” wardrobe, pulled from the spring collections, shows.